Roberta Sterman Sabbath

Sacred Body

Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination

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Produktbeschreibung

Sacred Body analyzes exemplary Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the "sacred" from the divine and focus instead on the "everyday sacred," earthly existence in order to celebrate life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoid abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781666907964
• ISBN-10: 1666907960
• Artikelnr.: 67187160

Autorenporträt

Roberta Sterman Sabbath is director of religious studies and visiting assistant professor in the English Department at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Biblical Emigrants: Human Agency in Eve, Abraham, Sarah
Chapter 2. Sexuality, Martyrdom, and Suicide in the Talmud: Life Force and
Death by Choice
Chapter 3. From Hekhalot to Kabbalah: Accessing the Body of God
Chapter 4. Wonder and the Jewish Enlightenment: False Messiahs,
Philosophers, and Social Justice
Chapter 5. Twenty-First Century Narratives of Jewish Identity: The
Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's
Union and Nicole Krauss's Forest Dark
Chapter 6. Twenty-First Century Epic Theater and Eclectic Choreography in
Margot Mink Colbert's Ballet Transit(ion): Emigration Transformation